One of my vbox gentoo vms, on boot, comes up on the grub screen
in a nice hi-res console. Very early in the boot procedure that
hi-res console collapses into a standard console resoltion and stays
there from then on.
It is possible to set things so that one maintains a hi-res console
all the time... Correct?
If so, I'd like to know what needs to be set. I have followed up
reading about this subject in gentoo documents, one source says you cannot
make any driver selections in kernel setup at:
Device drivers ->
Graphics support ->
Framebuffer Devices ->
Make no selections of drivers here
There are choices within the address above that look like the kind
of thing you'd check but the guide I was reading said any choices
there would block KMS which could get settings at:.
Device drivers ->
Graphics support ->
Console display driver support --->
Frame buffer console sup. is default selected an
[*]Frame Buffer console sup is default selected
cannot be changed (on kernel-4.9.10)
ditto for:
[*]map the conosle tor primary disp device
There are several more there but these two may be
the place:
[]initial number of console screen columns
[]initial number of console screen rows
There isn't much else there... things like scrollback
size [...] and initil console size
So are these settings what control KMS console sizing?
For example if you weree to set something like 140 and 60 for columns
and rows... would then have a console that size
Or is it the settings in /etc/defalt/grub where their are a couple of
options about geometry?
Both maybe?
